Ashoka Globalizer Strategy Thought Partners - Munich-2012

Ana María Llopis is the Founder and CEO of ideas4all.com (2008 Start-up), an Internet sharing ideas social network as well as a Corporate Innovation Transformer SaaS platform. She is also currently Non Executive Chairman at DÍA Hard discount Stores and Non Executive Director at Société Générale...

Anke Domscheit-Berg, is founder and director of opengov.me, a consulting business, helping governments to become more open and transparent, as well as of fempower.me, a consulting and training business helping women managers and their organisations to break down barriers for women in leadership...

On September 18, 2006, Anousheh Ansari captured headlines around the world as the first female private space explorer travelling to and staying onboard the International Space Station for 10 days. Afterwards, back on Earth as a successful serial entrepreneur, Anousheh returned to her job as...

Badr Jafar is President of Crescent Petroleum, headquartered in the United Arab Emirates for over 40 years and with offices worldwide, where he leads project development and financial deal structuring activities for the group. Mr Jafar also serves as CEO of Crescent Investments, the group’s...

Bernd Kolb is considered a visionary and is widely recognized for his innovative work. He is the recipient of various prizes and awards including being named "German Businessman of the Year", as well as having held the position of Chief Executive for innovation at Deutsche Telekom.

David Kirkpatrick is an author, journalist, and media entrepreneur. He wrote the definitive history and explanation of Facebook, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World. Kirkpatrick is also founder and CEO of Techonomy Media, which hosts the annual...

Esther Dyson is chairman of EDventure Holdings. Her primary activity is investing in and nurturing start-ups, with a recent focus on health care and aerospace. From October 2008 to March 2009 she lived in Star City outside Moscow, Russia, training as a backup cosmonaut. Apart from this brief...

Florian Seubert, 38, is CFO and founder of zooplus AG, a growing and expanding European online retail group with annual sales of around € 300 mm and a leading market position within its sector (pet and animal supplies) across all major European consumer markets. Within 10 years, zooplus was...

Katharina Borchert studied law in Hamburg and Lausanne and worked in the Human Rights sector in Namibia and Switzerland before she got caught up in the Web. She served as editor in chief of an early print magazine about the Internet and continued to write for and about the Web after the magazine...